Haven't tried it yet, but theoretically if it requires disenchanting items, that could lead to much fewer items in the world merchant. I'm not a fan of that idea.

This is true, and it is something we expected to happen.Two points:

Once people figure out the details of the system, we expect some items to be once again available at the world merchant. True, there will be less than before, but the world merchant will still be useful.

We hope that the system will incentivise people to drain rather than store equip they don't need, resulting to more loads.

Another concern is pkill, as we expect people to drain looted eq, reducing the victims' chance to recover it. As implied in HELP SPELL DRAIN MAGIC, items with lower timers will generate lower quality motes, and we expect the increased load rate to balance this to some extent, but we'd like more feedback in this area.

Haven't tried it yet, but theoretically if it requires disenchanting items, that could lead to much fewer items in the world merchant. I'm not a fan of that idea.

This is true, and it is something we expected to happen.Two points:

Once people figure out the details of the system, we expect some items to be once again available at the world merchant. True, there will be less than before, but the world merchant will still be useful.

We hope that the system will incentivise people to drain rather than store equip they don't need, resulting to more loads.

Another concern is pkill, as we expect people to drain looted eq, reducing the victims' chance to recover it. As implied in HELP SPELL DRAIN MAGIC, items with lower timers will generate lower quality motes, and we expect the increased load rate to balance this to some extent, but we'd like more feedback in this area.

definitely forming some preemptive thoughts on motes...and will be happy to share them probably via pm or open topic in a couple days depending on final solo findings. Aware they're a work in progress, but feeling like I might eventually be able to offer something useful on the topic sometime...

Another concern is pkill, as we expect people to drain looted eq, reducing the victims' chance to recover it. As implied in HELP SPELL DRAIN MAGIC, items with lower timers will generate lower quality motes, and we expect the increased load rate to balance this to some extent, but we'd like more feedback in this area.

My guess is that looted eq will be come more recoverable because it will get drained rather than given to an alt. My question is whether there will be increased motivation to kill less geared people and drain their eq.

Haven't tried it yet, but theoretically if it requires disenchanting items, that could lead to much fewer items in the world merchant. I'm not a fan of that idea.

I was of the same mind initially but then realized that this would basically just mean that more eq gets drained = more eq loads in zone = problem more or less sorts itself out. There's also a fair bit of decent gear that doesn't provide motes for whatever reason that will probably just stay on the merchant so it's not like the merchant will just forever be desolate. As of this post it's 8pm on a weekday and there's five pages of stuff on the world merchant, for example.

I'm a little concerned of the fact that mages don't have to pay 200-whatever coins/drain like everyone else, which will either contribute to a rise in mage alts (whether that's good or bad is up to you) or result in a drastic cost savings compared to other classes (unlikely; it's easier to just make a mage).

My guess is that looted eq will be come more recoverable because it will get drained rather than given to an alt. My question is whether there will be increased motivation to kill less geared people and drain their eq.

One perhaps unintended side affect I can see with the current iteration is that the next 8man that loses a fight is going to have all of their gear that the other side doesn't want disenchanted, so pretty much no chance to recover your stuff unless you can hit them back without anything but shop gear in the ~2-5 minutes it takes them to recite drain magic scrolls on everything.